Posted on 06/05/2019 9:08:04 AM PDT by simpson96
Round and round
With love we’ll find a way just give it time
Round and round
What comes around goes around
I’ll tell you why
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u8teXR8VE4
She won’t be hiking again for awhile!
Exactly.
says the guy who got to sit in the helicopter.
This spinning need not occur...Placing a crewman on the ground with a tag line attached to the litter and played out lateral to the helo allows for countering the rotation from rotor wash...
Once the litter is on board the helo, the ground crewman can also be recovered...
Issue is one of procedure...
We had a medevac off our ship in VN. The injured sailor was claiming to be homosexual in order to go home. To keep clear of the rigging they used about 200 ft of cable. The last we saw of this Klinger he was spinning like a top headed to a camp hospital in VN.
Great Story! Has all the key elements: Terrifying, funny as hell, and a happy ending! I kept rooting for the helo to play her out a little more, then reel her in.
You spin me right round, Baby right round, like a record, Baby Round Baby Round Round....
Well, shucks, the alternative was for the old gal to remain marooned. Maybe now she can sue the intrepid rescuers, who have a history of daring rescues.
She needs to be happy she got pulled off that mountain alive, a little dizziness beats dying of heat stroke and dehydration.
Thank you!
I've wondered why there can't be a system of vanes on the litter to, at least partially, counteract the turning force of the rotor wash.
I’ll bet she puked all over something at some point in that episode or other.
“Have you had anything to eat or drink in the last 12 hours?”
“Yes.”
“Sorry. We’ll be back to pick you up later.”
And who keeps him from spinning?
The ground crewman is not in a flat horizontally suspended litter, tethered at its center of gravity...He is hoisted in a vertical or standing position by his harness, and is little affected by the rotor wash...Watch videos of CG rescue swimmers for example being hoisted back on board a helo...Very little spin...
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